Arco Am Pm

Car wash Absolutely did NOT clean the back of my car top for that matter and barely splashed water on the hood. I could have saved my $ 5 and washed it better myself. The carwash lasted less than 30 sec. The two cashiers females are over the top flirty with male customers and advertised beverages on the window are not even labelled when you go to the drink dispenser for coffees/​lattes.

This place has the worst closing procedures for it’s employees, BEWARE! If one of the employees is closing their register you will literally be waiting for 20min+ before you are attended from anyone for anything. This happens constantly and no one shows any proper customer service to accommodate your wait time. Cheap gas = cheap service. Trash place.

This has been a Arco and AM/​PM mini mart forever. I remember not long ago that a change in management or ownership has taken place here. I would say at least a few years from now. The previous owner used to have a garage here but placed a drive-​thru car wash in it’s place. This gas station is in a spot that is easy to get to with signs attempting to direct traffic in one drive-​way and out another drive-​way. I failed to see this sign and just pulled up to the pumps. I really hate Arco for the surcharge to use your card whether it’s ATM or credit. $ 0.60 per transaction the last time I used a card. Cash is the best until you have to get change. These walk up stations that you feed your dollar bills in does not spit out your change so you have to go into the store and see the clerk. When it’s close to 1AM, you should cross your fingers and hope the clerk doesn’t have other assigned duties such as in the kitchen. Why do you ask? When the doors are locked and you can only communicate through the walk up window and bulletproof glass, do you know how to get the clerk’s attention even when there is a doorbell you can press? Tap your keys on the glass but the guy is still walking back and forth doing something in the kitchen. When you finally have his attention and he comes to the window. Change on pump number 8 please. That part only took less than 30 seconds. This is where you can say, FML!

Beware! The restroom is gross, looks like it never gets cleaned. They charge a quarter to use the restroom, yet there was no soap or paper towels.

Usually super busy because this is one of the cheapest gas stations you can find in 626. Good and bad that the location is right off the freeway, easy to get in but hard as hell to leave. They have a terrible cramped in and out drive way system.

Ok this place has people constantly flowing through it like a free soup kitchen on skid row has homeless folks filtering through. It is crazy how this joint is always busy. Maybe its because it’s an Arco on the edge of the freeway.
I have had decent service here when I have had to go inside for change and or to buy lotto duckets. The staff seemed typical for Arco Am/​Pm kind of a place. Not the most brilliant of scholars but no one who wont work hard to get where they want to go.
They have the full set of standard AM/​PM things here as well as the easy freeway access… What more do you want in a place like this? Ohhh ok yeah they have decent prices for gas as well. How is that for extra credit? Ohhh but don’t try to use your credit card… ARCO only takes cash and debit cards with a use fee of $.50 usually…

Recently discovered this location’s low, low, low prices and have been coming back since. I first learned about Arco’s cheap gas prices through an app (GasBuddy, which tells you the gas prices at nearby gas stations). I usually go to the Arco on Ramona and Cogswell, or Sam’s Club on Lower Azusa, but this location has been able to meet or beat the other two location.
Besides the low prices, I like that this location offers car washes. I’m a very lazy person, so I don’t like washing my own car, nor do I like waiting for someone to wash it for me. Because of this, express/​drive-​thru car washes are the next best option for me.

Very busy ampm, easy on/​off access. Fuel prices alil higher due to the area and convenience. I stop here when in the area.

*Oh, [ARCO/​ampm counter lady], dooby-​doo, I’m in love with you*
–Randy & The Rainbows, 1963
It was looking pretty grim one Tuesday afternoon after the $ 3.479/gallon price sign drew me to this ARCO station on the eastbound I-​10 Baldwin Avenue offramp in El Monte. I had prepaid $ 20 to quickly pump a little petrol into my ol’-skool Dodge Tradesman van (gas gauge broke years ago) and as I began, the nozzle actuator just waggled back and forth and wouldn’t dispense a drop.
Naturally, I retried the fueling preparation process; nothing but more wiggle-​waggle. Back into the mini-​mart I went to report an apparently broken pump, where one of the two lady employees appeared incredulous, and led the way back to pump #6 which obviously had taken a sudden dive, or so I thought.
«Oh, you have an old van,» she noticed. «Do you have the same trouble at other ARCOs?» Actually, I do, I admitted. At the ARCO near my residence I have always had to apply firm downward pressure to the nozzle to prevent it from shutting off in fits and starts. She recounted her work experience at another ARCO in South Gate where the same thing used to happen, and told me that old Toyotas also have similar difficulties.
Then she took the nozzle and inserted it, this way and that, probing every possible angle into my van’s fill hole. The pump bashfully released its product, a little at a time, until she at last found the perfect position that triggered uninhibited release of automotive fulfillment.
This is far from the most alluring ARCO in the chain, but its prices are among the lowest in the area, and the counter lady found my van’s G-​spot.

I was shocked to know that its the first time a business has denied money, specially a $ 100 bill for trying to buy gas. The cashiers reason was that her «counterfeit money machine» wasn’t working. My empty light for my gas tank came on and i stopped at this cheap gas station to fill up and this is the excuse i got for trying to buy gas. Apparently they cant afford a counterfeit marker or a small black light to run a business and make money.

Sadness. The past few times I’ve passed by this place, their gas prices have been higher than the one near home. And when it comes down to it, price is everything when it comes to gas stations.